Questions tagged [status-declined]
Indicates that the feature request will not be implemented, or that a bug will not be fixed at present time.
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Theme of mobile site needs a bit of polish
I really like the theme of desktop site:
The mobile site, on the other hand. Well, it is clean, and exceptionally generic shade of blue and gray:
Would it be possible to, perhaps, just fix the color ...
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Should the [pixie] tag be synonymised with the [monsters] tag?
Today I noticed that we have a pixie tag, relating to the D&D creature (mostly about 4e, although there's one 5e question too).
I know we shouldn't create a separate tag for each spell, as ...
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Is there much point in having a [tone] tag?
So, we have a tone tag that currently only has 3 questions.
I feel like it doesn't really add much on top of the tags that those questions already use. It isn't a very frequently used tag and I don'...
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Should we introduce tags for specific Metamagic options (such as Twinned Spell), and what happens to the [metamagic] tag?
As discovered by @Xirema, we have a significant number of questions about the Twinned Spell metamagic. More specifically, searching for 5e questions about "twinned spell" (...
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Can we get an annual survey?
I just took the 2019 Developer Survey for Stack Overflow, and I was thinking it would be cool to get similar information for the RPG.se community.
Some potential questions:
What RPGs have you played ...
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Can we color system tags to emphasize that they're different and "more meaningful"?
So, this is kind of an "asking about a problem I don't have" feature, but I wanted to float it out there. As an answerer of unfrequented systems, I've noticed that many questions follow what's come to ...
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Does RPG Stack Exchange want to opt out from Hot Network Questions?
What's this? The Hot Network Questions (HNQ) list is that list of random questions from random sites you'll see in the bottom of the sidebar on most site pages. It displays questions that have ...
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I think we should burninate [campaign-settings]
I think we should burninate campaign-settings. It seems to be overloaded and doesn't actually say or do much.
From what I can tell, it gets used in the following situations:
“I am asking about a (non-...
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Make it possible for certain tags (like game tags) to always appear first
As I brought up in the comments of this question, it would be great if it were possible to somehow have a specified tag always be listed first on a post, or if certain special tags (in RPG.SE's case, ...
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Could we have a separate close reason for missing system tag?
A lot of the times we close a question for being unclear, it's because it's missing a system tag. I would guess that's the case for over half of our closed-as-unclear questions. With this in mind, ...
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Should we burninate [attack] and [damage]?
For consideration:
The attack tag
The damage tag
Do we feel that these have value? Can someone be an expert in those areas?
Note that there was a proposal to burninate [attack] about 4 years ago; ...
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Why isn't there a tag for Fighting Fantasy?
I was going to edit this question by adding a tag for Fighting Fantasy, because I noticed that he had missed it, but then I found out that there isn't a tag for it. That seems odd, given that Fighting ...
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Let's burn [books]!
For some reason we have a books tag. I propose that we burninate it.
It tells you nothing about the content of the question.
You can't be an expert on "RPG books".
There are exactly two questions ...
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Should we throw [star-wars] out the airlock?
Anecdotally, I've seen a couple times that it's very easy to tag something with star-wars thinking it's a substitute for the nonexistent ffg-star-wars (see Should there be a 'Parent tag' for ...
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Voting down has to be revised
Quoting the official description of downvoting priveledge:
Use your downvotes whenever you encounter an egregiously sloppy, no-effort-expended post, or an answer that is clearly and perhaps ...
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How about we make Stack Exchange into an RPG game?
TL;DR: Let’s make Stack Exchange into an RPG game!
=CURRENCIES=
There’re 2 currencies in the game: gold and diamonds.
Gold
Gold is the most common currency. It’s very similar to the existing “...
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Could we get a [forum] shortlink?
We get a lot of questions that are better suited to a forum, and it's customary when closing them to provide a link to that post. Since I've started doing moderation, though, I've noticed that we don'...
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It's [time] to remove a tag, but are there some good replacements we can make first?
It turns out we have a time tag. This is a bit of a problem. As KRyan put it in a comment:
time seems a bit overloaded to me, since it can refer to both in-game time (how to measure it, how to ...
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I have a helpful answer to someone's question, but the question is held
I have a helpful answer to someone's question, but someone else has put the question on hold. Is there a good way for me to communicate my answer to them without breaking SE rules?
For example, one ...
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Is there any way we can set up whispers to certiain screen names in chat? [duplicate]
Sometimes on RPG stack you're playing that game where you want to do something sneaky or underhanded and its really hard to do so when you can't pass the GM a note to let them know of your intentions.
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A better banner
While going around the site, our banner is the most prominent element on the page, and it does nothing to stop people from thinking this is about computer RPGs.
Should we add a "tabletop" writing ...
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A script changes search URLs when I right click on them, breaking my workflow
I have a bookmarked search page which returns a set of questions within my favourite tags (e.g. system-agnostic and dnd-3.5e). I have an addon that I rely on heavily, which lets me right-click on ...
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Could we have a shortcut "magic link" to the "Good Subjective, Bad Subjective" blog post?
Mainly, just like we map [help] and [tour], I'd love to be able to map [gsbs] to the Stack Overflow blog post "Good Subjective, Bad Subjective" (http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-...
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Should we start a community blog?
Stack Exchange runs blog services for some sites upon request on their blog site, Blog Overflow. Stack Exchange has a blog post dedicated to what they're looking for in a blog, and I think we meet and ...
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Just For Fun Request: How to Tame the Dragons
Because of the popularity and controversy of the "apex lifeform" question, I think it might be good to create a new question based on the original as a community-inspired "just for fun" question. To ...
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Can we have a RTFM equivalent in the Vote to Close options?
Often enough we get really low-quality questions that are obvious that the asker has not read the rules at all (vs. asking for clarification). What does "+6 to hit, Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4)" mean ...
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site design: hijacked into the bounty section
I was in a normal (no bounty) question, clicked through to a related general question, and clicked on the optimization tag to see other questions with the same tag.
Instead of a list of questions, I ...
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Can we add an adventure-recommendation tag?
I was looking through the published-adventure tags looking for some insights on modules to run. However I was getting a lot of questions that were just noise for me.
I would like to propose adding ...
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Tag Request: God Machine Rules Update
I would like to request that someone with higher privileges than me create some or all of the the following tags, and mark them as aliases.
God-Machine
God-Machine-Rules-Update
nnwod
nwod-GMC
wod-2.5
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New dice mode in chat
It would be helpful if there was a dice mode for Fudge dice. Fudge dice are 6 sided, with 2 +, 2 -, and two blank. It would even be cooler if the total would be added together (+1, -1, 0) and given. ...
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Multiple Correct Answers
I have had several questions now where multiple answer are correct. It would be nice to mark all the answer that are correct as so and then leave it up to the votes to decided which is the best of the ...
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Retaining lonely system tags
Apparently there is a dev(?)-accessible switch on a per-site basis that disables the script that cleans out tags that have only been used once in 6 months. Arqade recently turned this off because they ...
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Can we have an internal messaging system? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
A way to leave messages to users?
Can we have a way to send a message or email directly to someone without having to do it via a comment, question, answer or chat? Or is they ...
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Can we have a post notice for system-recommendation questions?
RPG has long allowed system-recommendation questions under fairly tight tight rules, and every time they pop up the mods are posting a general comment like the following:
Just a note folks, ...
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Can we keep Sketchy? [closed]
In light of this I'd like to make a featured request.
Please allow RPG.SE to keep the sketchy theme.
When I first came to this site I didn't notice the sketchy theme, I thought it was part of the ...
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Is sharing a link via Google+ in the cards?
We can tweet links for site promotion, facebook them, our email seeking outside experts. Will posting to Google+ be in our toolkits any time soon?
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Can I send private messages to users?
I feel there should be a message system where you can leave specific users private messages, so that users can comunicate privately, which is why the chat won't do. How come we don't have anything ...
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Should RPG.SE merge with boardgames.SE?
I can think of a few good reasons:
Get both out of beta by combining stats
Currently Miniature Wargaming straddles the line in an awkward way (considering how similar some 'board' games are to D&...
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Why do some feeds not work in chat?
I've been trying to add the RPG Bloggers Network RSS feed to the chat, and just can't make it work. It's a feedburner feed, and we have one of those working for Gnome Stew. I've tried playing with ...
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Commenting should be enabled from the start
Early on I got one comment on one of my answers that it should have been a comment, at the time I didn't have the privilege to post comments, which seems really silly. Comments are supposed to be less ...
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Should the spoiler code work in IE Tab Plus?
I'm sure this will probably end up a "no", but I thought I would throw it in to make sure the devs are aware.
I normally use IE Tab Plus (FKA: Coral IE Tab) for any browsing that absolutely requires ...
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Can we require comments on downvotes?
Perhaps I'm the only one noticing this, but I've seen several Questions and Answers around here that have been downvoted for no apparent reason. What's worse, is that no reason for the downvote is ...
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